So, what's the problem with this???
Assuming, of course, that the depopulation doesn't actually come about by killing people off intentionally (any more than they're all willing to die through their own idiocy - smoking, drugs, stupid wars, living in stupid places that are constantly plagued by natural disasters that kill people).
I've heard that there are plans to have the human population reduced by about 90%.
Personally, I don't think that's a bad thing.
And, FWIW, Robert Monroe saw a future on planet Earth with a *much* smaller population than that!!
It probably needs to be pointed out that the higher the level of technology, education, medical care, and freedoms/equality in a society, the less said society breeds. So, for most of Europe, North America, Australia/New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, etc, the birth rate is heading down to under the death rate... (ie., negative population growth - except through immigration). Even China is having this issue (certainly, a greater aging population).
Please note - at this point of the discussion, I'm *NOT* getting into the hows of this happening - such as forced sterilisation programs instituted nefariously by evil agents who pretend that the jabs are for some sort of 'vaccine'... I'm only discussing the idea of only having a much smaller human population. Nor the discussion on the who's of that population (ie, eugenics or genocides). Nor, naturally, of cultural destruction.
I'm only talking about having less humans on the planet...
(it should also be noted that humanity had more cultural diversity a few centuries ago than we had now, back when the human population was less than 1 billion... ie, going back to what we had then).
Remember - more people means more pollution, much greater land usage for food and other resource production, decimation and extinction of species, and greater likelihood of wars over those resources. We're getting to the point where most things can be automated or roboticised, and AI can take care of so many things, such that humans shouldn't be working 40 hours per week... AND (ok, this is really idealistic), we should all have access to free energy (and education/information).
Thoughts from people?
«Remember - more people means more pollution, much greater land usage for food and other resource production, decimation and extinction of species, and greater likelihood of wars over those resources. We're getting to the point where most things can be automated or roboticised, and AI can take care of so many things, such that humans shouldn't be working 40 hours per week... AND (ok, this is really idealistic), we should all have access to free energy (and education/information).»
There's only more pollution when people go about doing things to cause pollution; there's also only more crime when people go about doing things to cause more crime; and the problems only increase when «systems» are enacted and implemented that result in causing more problems without bothering to solve any previous problems; one of the things that bothers me a great deal is how we can't even recycle anything efficiently, but, simply dump it all out into the land-fills (the U.S., similarly to its Prison-Population Statistics, outputs more than 27% of the whole entire world's garbage, whilst consisting of less than 4% of the entire world-population).
Solutions exist, even with an increasing population, but, problems will most-certainly and definitely increase and persist IF the people who do the vast majority of «pumping out babies» are not properly guiding nor correctly educating the next-generation off-spring; how-ever, because of the way things are now, solutions need to be established at the local-levels, with everybody being able to achieve as much self-sufficiency as possible at the local-community levels; and, returning back to my bit about the bothersome garbage-output, even that can be reduced significantly with «solutions» like this mini-recycling centre... https://www.dezeen.com/2013/11/11/dave-hakkens-precious-plastic-recycling-machines-movie/